Located some 1300 light-years away in the constellation of Carina (The Keel of the ship Argo). It is informally known as the Wishing Well Cluster, as it resembles scattered silver coins which have been dropped into a well, It was the first target to be observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope. (May 1990) The stars that with moderate masses are still shining brightly with blue-white colors, but the more massive ones have already exhausted their supplies of hydrogen becoming red giant stars.

Betelgeuse Star - Betelgeuse is a dying star located 640 light years away in the Orion constellation that will eventually go supernova. If it does while we humans are still on earth, it will be easily visible and bright even during the daylight hours, but will fade away after a few months. If it were visible tomorrow, due to the speed of light, the actual explosion would have occurred sometime during the Middle Ages.

A red giant star is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. In only a few billion years, our own sun will turn into a red giant star, expand and engulf the inner planets, possibly even Earth. What does the future hold for the light of our solar system and others like it?